Agatha Christie, First Edition - AbeBooks Agatha Christie, First Edition Results (1 - 30) of 6576 1 Published by Bodley Head (1921) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bodley Head, 1921. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An exceptionally fine first edition of Agatha Christie's debut novel introducing Hercule Poirot. Octavo, original brown cloth without the stains or tears one typically encounters. At the start of the First World War, Christie "returned to the Voluntary Aid Detachment nursing she had taken up and the dispensary work that followed. It was during lulls in the dispensary that she began a detective story.

Seeking some point of originality for a sleuth in the Sherlock Holmes tradition she thought of the Belgian refugees in Torquay and Hercule Poirot, retired Belgian policeman evacuated to England, was born, though it was not until 1920 and six unsuccessful trips to publishers that he saw the light of day in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a book that shows little indeed of the prentice hand" (DNB). "Poirot was created for the reader who identified with an individual detective a private detective who relied on his 'gray cells" (Woellert & Cassiday, 116). "Happily, Poirot richly merited the attention he received. For when he is at the top of his form few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian either for individuality or ingenuity He still comes closer to symbolizing his profession in the popular mind than any story-book detective since Holmes Agatha Christie is easily one of the half-dozen most accomplished and entertaining writers in the modern field" (Haycraft, 131-33). First published in New York and Toronto in 1920. Barzun & Taylor 780.

Penciled owner signature. Cheaply printed and bound, surviving copies of this work are almost always found in deplorable condition, due to paper shortages after WW I. This is by far the best copy to come on the market in the last two decades, and should be considered the cornerstone of any serious rare mystery novel collection. The book is internally fresh and free from foxing, with only a small pencil ownership signature. Without the extremely rare Dust Jacket. The book is housed in a custom half marocco clamshell box. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-18610497178 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Collins Crime Club, London, 1932. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HARDBACK - The book is in very good or better condition. The front and rear red boards are clean with no soiling. The spine is a touch faded, but still fresh in appearence. The inner pages are clean with a little foxing to the outer pages. The book is tightly bound with no spine lean. The book has been walmly Inscribed by the author to the ffep. The dust wrapper is in very good condition.

The wrapper is the correct first edition from 1932 with the price of 7s.6d.net to the spine. The dust wrapper has had some light restoration performed to the tip and tail of the spine, and to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. The restoration is of the highest quality, and the dust wrapper presents very well indeed. There is soiling to the spine, and a little to the rear panel. Overall, a nice early Christie title in an original first Impression dust wrapper, Inscribed by the author. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 000584 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Original brown cloth with black titles and Art Deco design. Top edge stained blue. A near fine copy with beautifully clean cloth and distinct lettering and design. There are a couple of small production blemishes to the rear cover and some minor fraying to part of the rear joint, but beyond that looks barely handled. Internally fresh and clean and most unusually free from foxing. An exceptional copy. The author's first novel, which sees the first appearance of M. Hercule Poirot.

Due to the wartime restrictions this book was made from poor quality stock which browns very easily. The boards are also very fragile with the majority of copies surviving only in a disbound or heavily repaired state. Copies as well preserved as this one are very rarely encountered. Bookseller Inventory # 33647 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London. Soft Cover. First Edition. The hand-typed manuscript of an uncollected and hitherto unpublished Poirot story. The manuscript is 92-pages long and is bound in yellow card covers held together by 3 large staples overlaid by blue tape. There is a pale blue label on the front cover upon which has been typed in dark blue type: ***/ THE GREENSHORE FOLLY/ By/ AGATHA CHRISTIE/ ***. The manuscript is un-dated but is definitely pre-1956. On the front cover is an embossment from Ethel Christian Limited (typewriting, shorthand and duplicating), 36-38 Southampton Street, Strand, W.C.2. Temple Bar 2904.

On the inside cover there is a small red label (with black lettering) from Ethel Christian Limited with her address details in W.C.2. On the outside of the manuscript there is a small piece of paper attached (with typing on the verso) that says: GREENSHORE FOLLY original short story. Basis for novel DEAD MANï¿½S FOLLY. Short Story GREENSHAWï¿½S FOLLY substituted for story above. The Greenshore Folly is referred to in several Agatha Christie bibliographical lists and is a detective novella featuring Hercule Poirot which was expanded in 1956 into the full-length novel, Dead Manï¿½s Folly. ï¿½The Greenshore Follyï¿½ is not to be confused with the entirely un-related Miss Marple Story ï¿½Greensh awï¿½s Follyï¿½ which was published in ï¿½The Adventures of the Christmas Puddingï¿½ in 1960. ï¿½The Greenshore Follyï¿½ is one of the rarest Agatha Christie manuscripts to have appeared on the market in many years.

£20,000. Bookseller Inventory # 355490711760 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1939. CHRISTIE, Agatha. TEN LITTLE NIGGERS. London: The Crime Club, [1939]. Small 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First English Edition. Undoubtedly Christie's most politically-incorrect title by today's standards. The title was changed to "Ten Little Indians" when the book was published in America and the design of the dust jacket was also changed. The title was again changed to "And Then There Were None" for the 1945 movie version, which is probably the best film adaptation of any Christie novel. Very Good (minor soil covers); in an attrractive dust jacket that has some professional resotration, particularly to several former chips and to the spine ends. Enclosed in a custom-designed clam-shell box depicting a Negro baby on the front cover. An attractive copy of a scarce title. $9000.00.

Bookseller Inventory # 25751 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: John Lane, London, 1921. Hard Cover. First Edition. (John Lane, The Bodley Head 1921). First UK Edition. Publisher's brown cloth with decoration and lettering in black on the front board and spine. Consists of 296 pages of which the text runs from pages 9 to 296 (there are no advertisement leaves). The UK first edition was published in January 1921 (The American first edition preceded it published in December 1920). The UK first edition (generally preferred by collectors) is of legendary scarcity. This is a VG copy with slightly softened spine tips, some age-darkening to the top edge and light foxing to the early/late pages of the book. Interestingly this is a Publisher's Review Copy blind-stamped as such on the title page and on the contents page. Unsurprisingly, there is no dust jacket. [To my knowledge, a copy of this book in dust jacket has never been offered for sale in living memory]. A rare and important book. First book.

Bookseller Inventory # 355490716104 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London & New York, 1930. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Christie, Agatha] Westmacott, Mary. GIANT'S BREAD. NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First American Edition, first printing. A Very Good, firm copy in original publisher's cloth, illustrated title labels to spine and front cover. SIGNED BY AGATHA CHRISTIE on the front-free endpaper using her pseudonym. [With:] [Christie, Agatha] Westmacott, Mary. THE ROSE AND THE YEW TREE. London: William Heinemann, (1948). First Edition. A Very Good copy in original publisher's cloth. INSCRIBED BY AGATHA CHRISTIE on the front-free endpaper using her pseudonym: "To C. F. from M. W. Nov. 1948." [WITH:][Christie, Agatha] Westmacott, Mary. A DAUGHTER'S A DAUGHTER.

London: William Heinemann, (1952). A NEAR FINE copy (spine faded due to red cloth) in original dust jacket (lightly used). INSCRIBED BY AGATHA CHRISTIE on the front-free endpaper using her pseudonym: "Carlo, with love from Mary Westmacott" [With:] [Christie, Agatha] Westmacott, Mary. THE BURDEN. London: William Heinemann, (1956). First Edition. A Very Good or better copy in original publisher's cloth, which has been married to a price-clipped FINE ORIGINAL DJ. INSCRIBED BY AGATHA CHRISTIE on the front-free endpaper using her pseudonym: "To Charlotte, with love from Mary Westmacott." [With:] [Christie, Agatha] Westmacott, Mary. ABSENT IN THE SPRING. London: Collins, 1944. First Edition. A Very Good copy married to a Very Good example of the scarce original publisher's dust jacket (price-clipped), ASSOCIATION COPY.

From the collection (book-label to each front paste-down) of Charlotte "Carlo" Fisher (1895-1976). Charlotte Fisher, initially hired to serve as nanny to Christie's daughter Rosalind, was pressed into service as a part-time shorthand secretary during the earliest days of the author's career. To quote from Christie's autobiography, Charlotte Fisher was "friend and secretary and governess and dogsbody and everything else for many years. [She] is still one of my best friends." The six "Mary Westmacott" novels (of which we offer five) were those which Agatha Christie wrote to explore feelings that had no place in her mystery tales. Quoting Christie's daughter Rosalind at the time of her mother's centenary in 1947: "The Mary Westmacott novels have been described as romantic novels but I don't think that is really a fair assessment. They are not 'love stories' in the general sense of the term, and they certainly have no happy endings.

They are, I believe, about love in some of its most powerful and destructive forms." Agatha Christie wasn't in the habit of inscribing her non-mystery novels; until Carlo Fisher's copies were discovered, contemporary presentation copies were unknown and we can find no auction records for any other contemporaneously signed or inscribed Mary Westmacott books. Here we have five "Carlo Fisher" copies, all with her book-label and four of which are either signed or inscribed. A unique opportunity for the Christie collector to say the least. More information or photos on request. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 001895 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: John Lane, New York / Ryerson, New York / Toronto, 1920. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition( using the JOHN LANE , NEW YORK SHEETS) ;PRECEDES THE UK FIRST! This first book by Agatha Christie and first appearance of Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920 by John Lane, New York and subsequently in the U.K.

by John Lane, The Bodley Head in 1921.VERY GOOD without the rare jacket.THE CANADIAN FIRST EDITION obviously PRECEDES THE BRITISH FIRST EDITION and USED THE FIRST U.S. EDITION PLATES with a separately printed title page.The title page is integral and not tipped in. Ryerson Press probably printed very few copies of this book to secure Canadian copyright. The number of copies probably was fewer than 300 based on other printings by Ryerson, at that time, of established authors (e.g. Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather, 1935).The spine bears the title The Mysterious Affair At Styles ; Christie and The Ryerson Press at the foot. At the base of the title page , underneath the title " The Mysterious Affair at Styles,( then a decorative printed device), A Detective Story by Agatha Christie " is printed : Toronto: The Ryerson Press - New York:John Lane Company-London: John Lane , The Bodley Head; MCMXX. The book has beige cloth covered boards, lettered and decorated in dark green. Decorations are different than the British edition.

Cloth is rubbed and worn at extremities, slightly tanned at spine. ; front hinge starting; previous owners ink name and address ( Manitoba) to front paste down.Very good overall. LAID IN is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED (in pen) by the author to a fan in 1972 thanking him for his comments and his appreciation of re-reading of one of her books. Letter is a Royal Post Air Mail Letter. Christie has typed her " Winterbrook House" return address in the appropriate space and again at the top of her reply. Letter has been folded in the appropriate spots and is a little rough around the edges where it would have been opened by the recipient. Digital photos on request. A very RARE item. For the serious Christie completist! FREE INSURED SHIPPING by COURIER !Please contact the dealer if you have questions. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # JD2956 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Collins / The Crime Club, London, 1939. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. small 8vo.

Publisher's orange cloth with black stamping to the spine, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket with some expert restoration to the spine (portion at lower end) and edges. Some thumbsoiling and dampstaining to binding, cloth of spine a bit sunned. Very slightly skewed. No marks or inscriptions. A handsome, very good copy. Controversial title only used in Great Britain (for Crime Club editions). In America, it was published as And Then There Were None and reissued as Ten Little Indians. An extremely scarce edition in dust jacket and one of Christie's most sought after titles. Agatha Christie's best-selling novel with over 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever and one of the best-selling books of all time. Bookseller Inventory # 001773 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1926. hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First US Edition. Fine, beautiful book in vibrant dust jacket, with some folds at top and bottom, as well as a small tear across the top of the spine.

First American edition and extremely rare, especially in this condition, with even rarer dust jacket. Copies such as these come across once in many years! Publisherï¿½s price of $2.00 is present on inner flap. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the third book to feature Detective Hercule Poirot, and features an innovative plot twist at the end. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, this book is one of Christie's most well-known and controversial novels and voted the best crime novel ever by the British Crime Writers' Association in 2013. book. Bookseller Inventory # 100350 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London: Collins 1934, 1934. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettering to spine. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, a touch of browning to spine ends, top edge dusty; an excellent copy in the bright jacket with some shallow chips and nicks to extremities, and short closed tears to head and foot of front panel. First edition, first impression of Agatha Christie's semi-autobiographical novel, the second written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott.

Christie's adoption of a pseudonym was an interesting psychological manoeuvre that allowed her license for self-revelation not to be found in her detective fiction or even in her autobiography. Christie even adopted a different handwriting style for presentation copies of the book. Bookseller Inventory # 108135 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ryerson Press,, New York/Toronto:, 1920. Book Condition: Good. First Canadian edition of her first book. Published using the sheets of the first U.S edition (published by John Lane) and preceding the British first edition, published in 1921. The first appearance of Hercule Poirot. The book has an integral Ryerson title page; we assume it was a small printing. It appears to us that it was rebacked and has new endpapers. The rebacking was a pretty good job and not obvious. Internally clean with no foxing. In a specially made clamshell box printed in black lettering on spine and front. Bookseller Inventory # 52258 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Ryerson Press, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1920. Hardcover.

Book Condition: Very Good. 1st Canadian Edition. 8vo, The first Canadian Edition which preceded the first UK Edition. Brown cloth boards with green lettering and graphics on spine and top of front board. Top and base of spine shows slight thinning. There are four threads at the top and base of the spine, measuring 1/8 of an inch, which have been broken horizontally and vertically, probably due to shelfwear. The book has had no restoration. Light foxing throughout. Front and rear hinges are tight and intact. No pages torn. Pages 290, 292 and 294 show soft crease folds - the result of page marking. Minor soiling on the front board and spine. Copyright, 1920, by John Lane Company (New York). Author's rare first book which introduced Hercule Poirot. 296 pgs. 1A. Bookseller Inventory # 1812 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Collins Crime Club, London, 1937. First edition. Octavo, original cloth.

Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Agatha Christie." In very good condition with some toning to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Hercule Poirot is perhaps Agatha Christie's most interesting and endearing character; short, round, and slightly comical, Poirot has a razor-sharp mind and puts unlimited trust in his "little grey cells." "Death on the Nile must be read twice, once for enjoyment and once to see how the wheels go round" (The Times, London). Bookseller Inventory # 22054 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1936, 1936. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front cover orange. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the exceptional dust jacket with some nicks and creases to spine ends and some short closed tears to rear panel. First Crime Club edition, first impression, with the cancel title page. This book was first published by Odhams as part of a promotion in association with the periodical "The Passing Show", after the Crime Club declined to do so.

However, Collins later took over a small number of sheets and issued the book under The Crime Club imprint, with a slightly altered dust jacket design: it retained the same front panel design as issued by Odhams, but the spine panel was changed to white printed in black, and bore a price of 3/6 (the first edition had a pictorial spine panel and was unpriced). Extremely scarce in the jacket, and especially so in such nice condition. Bookseller Inventory # 114428 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London: Odhams Press Limited, 1933, 1933. Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine in black. With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded and rolled, covers unevenly faded, extremities faded, with spotting to edges and some to margins of early and late leaves; a very good copy in the chipped and creased but overall bright dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Carlo, from Missus".

From the library of Charlotte ("Carlo") Fisher (1895ï¿½1976), Christie's secretary and early amanuensis with whom Christie wrote several major early titles. The method was described by Christie in her autobiography: "Charlotte and I sat down opposite each other, she with her notebook and pencil. I stared unhappily at the mantelpiece, and began uttering a few tentative sentences. They sounded dreadful. I could not say more than a word without hesitating and stopping. Nothing I said sounded natural. We persisted for an hour. Long afterwards Carlo told me that she herself had been dreading the moment when literary work should begin." By this process Christie - or "Missus" as she was known to Fisher - would find her authorial voice. During the difficult period of the breakdown of her first marriage, Fisher was Christie's only friend and confidante. They remained close throughout their lives. Bookseller Inventory # 75776 The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Mysterious Affair at Styles 338pages on Share thumb|link= The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie .

It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. The U.S. edition retailed at US $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot , Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp , and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). The story is told in first person by Hastings and features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence. It is set in a large, isolated country manor. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will, as well as a number of red herrings and surprise plot twists.

Contents Edit The Times Literary Supplement of February 3, 1921, gave the book an extremely enthusiastic, if short, review, which stated: "The only fault this story has is that it is almost too ingenious." It went on to describe the basic set-up of the plot and concluded: "It is said to be the author's first book, and the result of a bet about the possibility of writing a detective story in which the reader would not be able to spot the criminal. Every reader must admit that the bet was won." The New York Times Book Review of December 26, 1920, was also impressed: Though this may be the first published book of Miss Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand … You must wait for the last-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of evidence that enabled Mr. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it really belonged. And you may safely make a wager with yourself that until you have heard M. Poirot's final word on the mysterious affair at Styles, you will be kept guessing at its solution and will most certainly never lay down this most entertaining book.

Poirot was described as a "delightful little old man". The novel's review in The Sunday Times of February 20, 1921, quoted the publisher's promotional blurb concerning Christie writing the book as the result of a bet that she would not be able to do so without the reader being able to guess the murderer, then said, "Personally we did not find the "spotting" so very difficult, but we are free to admit that the story is, especially for a first adventure in fiction, very well contrived, and that the solution of the mystery is the result of logical deduction. The story, moreover, has no lack of movement, and the several characters are well drawn." The contributor who wrote his column under the pseudonym of "A Man of Kent" in the February 10, 1921, issue of the Christian newspaper The British Weekly praised the novel but was perhaps overly generous in giving away the identity of the murderers. To wit, It will rejoice the heart of all who truly relish detective stories, from Mr. McKenna downwards. I have heard that this is Miss Christie's first book, and that she wrote it in response to a challenge.

If so, the feat was amazing, for the book is put together so deftly that I can remember no recent book of the kind, which approaches it in merit. It is well written, well proportioned, and full of surprises. When does the reader first suspect the murderer? For my part, I made up my mind from the beginning that the middle-aged husband of the old lady was in every way qualified to murder her, and I refused to surrender this conviction when suspicion of him is scattered for a moment. But I was not in the least degree prepared to find that his accomplice was the woman who pretended to be a friend. I ought to say, however, that an expert in detective stories with whom I discussed it, said he was convinced from the beginning that the true culprit was the woman whom the victim in her lifetime believed to be her staunchest friend. I hope I have not revealed too much of the plot. Lovers of good detective stories will, without exception, rejoice in this book. The Bodley Head quoted excerpts from this review in future books by Christie but understandably did not use those passages, which gave away the identity of the culprits.

In his book, A Talent to Deceive — An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, the writer and critic Robert Barnard wrote: Christie's debut novel, from which she made £25 and John Lane made goodness knows how much. The Big House in wartime, with privations, war work and rumours of spies. Her hand was over-liberal with clues and red herrings, but it was a highly cunning hand, even at this stage .... In general The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a considerable achievement for a first-off author. The country-house-party murder is a stereotype in the detective-story genre, which Christie makes no great use of. Not her sort of occasion, at least later in life, and perhaps not really her class. The family party is much more in her line, and this is what we have here. This is one of the few Christies anchored in time and space: we are in Essex, during the First World War. The family is kept together under one roof by the exigencies of war and of a matriarch demanding rather than tyrannical — not one of her later splendid monsters, but a sympathetic and lightly shaded characterization.

If the lifestyle of the family still seems to us lavish, even wasteful, nevertheless we have the half sense that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Edwardian summer, that the era of country-house living has entered its final phase. Christie takes advantage of this end-of-an-era feeling in several ways: while she uses the full range of servants and their testimony, a sense of decline, of breakup is evident; feudal attitudes exist, but they crack easily. The marriage of the matriarch with a mysterious nobody is the central out-of-joint event in an intricate web of subtle changes. The family is lightly but effectively characterized, and on the outskirts of the story are the villagers, the small businessmen, and the surrounding farmers – the nucleus of Mayhem Parva. It is, too, a very clever story, with clues and red herrings falling thick and fast. We are entering the age when plans of the house were an indispensable aid to the aspirant solver of detective stories, and when cleverness was more important than suspense.

But here we come to a problem that Agatha Christie has not yet solved, for cleverness over the long length easily becomes exhausting, and too many clues tend to cancel each other out, as far as reader interest is concerned. These were problems which Conan Doyle never satisfactorily overcame, but which Christie would.". Film, TV or theatrical adaptations Edit The blurbon the inside flap of the dustwrapper of the first edition reads: This novel was originally written as the result of a bet, that the author, who had previously never written a book, could not compose a detective novel in which the reader would not be able to "spot" the murderer, although having access to the same clues as the detective. The author has certainly won her bet, and in addition to a most ingenious plot of the best detective type she has introduced a new type of detective in the shape of a Belgian. This novel has had the unique distinction for a first book of being accepted by the Times as a serial for its weekly edition. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the only first edition of Christie's to be published by The Bodley Head, which carried such a blurb on its dustwrapper.

International titles Murder on the Orient Express; Poirot, First Editions: Agatha Christie Rare, Signed & First Editions - Poirot & Miss Marple Rare Books - Peter Harrington Rare & First Edition Books. Author Christie, Agatha Rare books by Agatha Christie, including first editions and signed first editions of Miss Marple, Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was the author of more than 70 detective novels, plays, and short stories, and the creator of the characters Poirot and Miss Marple. She began writing as a teenager and composed her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916. Introducing the detective Poirot, it was published by The Bodley Head in the US in 1920 and in the UK in 1921, with the publisher requesting more novels that Christie was happy to provide. A few years later she left The Bodley Head for Collins, who published her masterpiece The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926, and would remain her primary publisher for the rest of her life.

Christie’s books increased in popularity, and in 1930 she published her first novel featuring Miss Marple, The Murder at the Vicarage, as well as the first of six non-detective novels published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Many of Christie’s plots were based on her childhood in an English country house, but she also enjoyed travelling, and trips to the Middle East provided material for classics such as Murder on the Orient Express (1934) and Death on the Nile (1937). Many of her books were adapted as films and she was the author of 15 plays, including The Mousetrap, now the longest-running stage show in the world. Christie invented or perfected many of the features that characterise detective fiction, and is still considered the premiere author of the golden age of the mystery novel. Regularly stocked editions of Christie's works include the Crime Collection. Rare books by Agatha Christie, including first editions and signed first editions of Miss Marple, Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was the author of more than 70 detective novels, plays, and short stories, and the creator of the characters Poirot and Miss Marple. She began writing as a teenager and composed her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916. Introducing the detective Poirot, it was published by The Bodley Head in the US in 1920 and in the UK in 1921, with the publisher requesting more novels that Christie was happy to provide. A few years later she left The Bodley Head for Collins, who published her masterpiece The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926, and would remain her primary publisher for the rest of her life. Christie’s books increased in popularity, and in 1930 she published her first novel featuring Miss Marple, The Murder at the Vicarage, as well as the first of six non-detective novels published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Many of Christie’s plots were based on her childhood in an English country house, but she also enjoyed travelling, and trips to the Middle East provided material for classics such as Murder on the Orient Express (1934) and Death on the Nile (1937). Many of her books were adapted as films and she was the author of 15 plays, including The Mousetrap, now the longest-running stage show in the world. Christie invented or perfected many of the features that characterise detective fiction, and is still considered the premiere author of the golden age of the mystery novel. Regularly stocked editions of Christie's works include the Crime Collection. Download page of Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles for Windows 10/8 on topwindata Download Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles 0 By The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. The U.S.

edition retailed at US$2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). The story is told in first person by Hastings and features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence. It is set in a large, isolated country manor. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will, as well as a number of red herrings and surprise plot twists. Sorry, Not Available Any More. Users who download this also download New Poirot book to be published with permission of Agatha Christie's family - Telegraph Book news New Poirot book to be published with permission of Agatha Christie's family A new Poirot novel is to be written by author Sophie Hannah, after Agatha Christie's family granted permission for her work to be continued posthumously.

Christie interrupted her Poirot series to write And Then There Were None Photo: Rex Features Follow He has been resting in retirement for 39 years, but Hercule Poirot is to finally take on a new case after Agatha Christie’s family agreed for a follow-up book to be written. The book, the first ever Christie continuation novel, will be written 38 years after the author’s last work and is intended to bring Poirot’s exploits to a new generation. Commissioned with the blessing of Christie’s family, it will be penned by bestselling crime novelist Sophie Hannah and is said to contain all the “fiendishly puzzling” clues of the original series. It is the first time Christie’s estate has granted permission for new work to be written, after Hannah approached them with a fully-formed idea for a plot. The novel, which will be the 34th full-length book in the Poirot series, does not yet have a title and is due out in September next year.

Related Articles Don't mess with Barbara Cartland 15 Aug 2013 Christie’s grandson Mathew Prichard has already said he is looking forward to reading the book with “keen anticipation”, while author Hannah hailed the “incredible honour of being entrusted with something so important”. “Obviously it’s slightly daunting, and there’s a slight sense of ‘yikes’, but I’m incredibly excited about it and will do my absolute best not to let Agatha Christie and Poirot down,” she said. She added the plot – already laid out over 100 pages and shown to the Christie family – would contain the “incredibly puzzling clues and twists” fans of the original novels would recognise. Mr Prichard, chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd, said he hoped the novels would allow readers to revisit their favourite Poirot books as well as introducing them to a new generation. Poirot made his first outing in a Christie novel in the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and went on to appear in two plays and more than 50 short stories written by the author.

Hannah, whose own work has been published in 24 countries, said: “Agatha Christie was the writer who made me fall in love with mystery fiction, at the age of 13. "I read and collected all her novels within a year, and have been a passionately - some might even say obsessively - devoted fan ever since. "It was Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple who, between them, made me want to devote my working life to crime fiction, and it was Christie's brilliant plotting and deep understanding of the human psyche that shaped my identity as a crime writer. "Therefore, it is almost impossible to put into words how honoured I am to have been entrusted with this amazing project - in fact, I still can't quite believe that this is really happening. "I hope to create a puzzle that will confound and frustrate the incomparable Hercule Poirot for at least a good few chapters." Mr Prichard added: "It was pure serendipity that led to Sophie Hannah being commissioned to write this book. "Her agent happened to approach HarperCollins in exactly the same week that my colleagues and I had started discussing a new Christie book.

Her idea for a plot line was so compelling and her passion for my grandmother's work so strong, that we felt that the time was right for a new Christie to be written." Christie, who died in 1976, has sold more than two billion books which have been adapted countless times for the stage, television and film. Poirot is not the first fictional character to develop a life after the death of their creator - a new Jeeves and Wooster novel is due out this year written by Sebastian Faulks, who is one of several writers to pen a James Bond novel.

Question: Which novel, first published in the UK in 1921, was the first to feature Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot?
Answer: The Mysterious Affair at Styles